I would have loved those cappuccino Leeds had I discovered shell in time for when you sold.

Sizing confuses me so much, so tough to gauge without trying on, though I have learned a lot about my feet in the past year. Seems you are an 8D in most AE lasts along with and 8D in the Barrie last iirc.

Somehow because of my in between size, low vamp and narrow heel I have found the best sizes to be all over the map. I measure around 8.25 on the brannock, slightly shorter on my left foot.

AE 1 last: 8.5D for most, 8E would have been best in the Dundee

AE 5 Last: 8D or 8E. I can even make and 8.5D work, though minor heel slip

AE 7 Last: 8.5D or 8E

Alden Barrie and Trubalance: 7.5D works best (so far, only have a pair of CXL PTB), an 8D has way too much heel room and overall volume.

Woohoo! Just got the invoice for my brown shell Leeds. Full specs and pics to come next week!

Just curious but what size are you? I was just thinking it'd be awesome for some brown leeds to show up as 2nds. Love the Burgundy but have Dundees so thought it might be to much of an overlap. However I could just take your route!

Woohoo! Just got the invoice for my brown shell Leeds. Full specs and pics to come next week!

Just curious but what size are you? I was just thinking it'd be awesome for some brown leeds to show up as 2nds. Love the Burgundy but have Dundees so thought it might be to much of an overlap. However I could just take your route!

Ah ha, see you posted the pics. Looks great!

Thanks!

I am a 9.5 E in the 1 last. Almost never will you see a failed MTO show up on the seconds list. A regular poster in this thread somehow got a line on the MTO rejects and so he's able to resell them through the 'bay. Mine they got right the first time, in 18 days no less!

As for overlap, I now own Leeds in black, brown, and burgundy; MacNeil in the same; and Dundee in black, cappuccino, and burgundy (all nine are shell). I may be nutty but I don't consider them to overlap and each has their place in my admittedly large rotation.

I am a 9.5 E in the 1 last. Almost never will you see a failed MTO show up on the seconds list. A regular poster in this thread somehow got a line on the MTO rejects and so he's able to resell them through the 'bay. Mine they got right the first time, in 18 days no less!

As for overlap, I now own Leeds in black, brown, and burgundy; MacNeil in the same; and Dundee in black, cappuccino, and burgundy (all nine are shell). I may be nutty but I don't consider them to overlap and each has their place in my admittedly large rotation.

Yea. I think he mainly goes for the more extreme ones. So thought a normalish Leeds would make it. Pretty sure there are one or two on there from time to time. I got some burgundy shell daltons in 12C which is not a standard width it seems, at least online. So it may have been a somewhat MTO. Just in size, not details. Glad yours turned out the first time though. I've been hankering for a brown shell.